skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's cloaked hatred.

Homelessness causes suffering which is usually self-treated with substance abuse. This is not a hateful commentary.

I'm not sure how a blanket characterization equates to "hate", when it's a lazy attribution due to indifference. Maybe disdain is the appropriate term.
Things are more complicated than that. Romania is home to more than one Roma people. The Roma who go to Finland for organized begging are almost exclusively from the south of the country. They can actually seem quite foreign to Romanians from e.g. parts of Transylvania. There, the local Roma are often associated with different ways of making a living than begging, and speak a different set of languages preferentially. Some ethnic Romanians from Transylvania may be very tolerant about their local Roma community, but feel that those particular Roma people from particular counties are ruining things for everyone. Even Transylvanian Roma people can feel that way about the Roma from elsewhere.
It seems that every few months it just gets easier. So exciting to think about how space travel will look even within the space of a decade.
Show HN: Listifi – Sharable Lists
Hey all!

Problem: I had a hard time finding a quick and easy way to share lists with friends and colleagues. Most list apps tend to focus on productivity, I wanted a list app that focused on sharing and making lists that anyone could find useful.

Solution: a social list sharing site

https://listifi.app

I've tried adding enough social features to make the website feel a little more alive. When creating a list, there are four social features that I think are interesting:

- Explorable: lists with this setting are showcased on our explore page
- Likeable: lists can be "starred," similar to github and are saved on the user's profile
- Voting: allows users to vote on individual list items
- Suggestions: allows users to write in suggestions that the owner of the list can approve/reject

I plan to add more social features to increase engagement, but I'm at the point where I've got a functional app and really just need some feedback on how useful the website is to people.

Here's a short video of creating a list: https://storage.googleapis.com/listifi-assets/listifi_create...

I created a feature wishlist for listifi to showcase some of the plugins I've built to supercharge lists:

- https://listifi.app/u/erock/listifi-feature-wishlist

The questions I'm asking myself are:

- Is this site useful to people?
- Is there some other spin I can put on a list sharing website to drive engagement?
- Is it fun and engaging to create lists on this website?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
A mission to reinvent how humans, teams and computers work together
You're very contrarian it seems and that's annoying.
With the falling costs of getting cargo to orbit, will it ever be possible to install solar reflectors that keep the polar regions from heating up? This would keep intact the reflective white poles for longer, a positive development.

How big would the reflectors have to be, would they be in the L1 lagrange point? Maybe if SpaceX keeps lowering launch costs it will eventually be a no brainier?
Python’s success is at least partially due to its “batteries included” methodology, but many of its standard modules didn’t get any support because external solutions just turned out to be better. Rust maintains a small but high quality standard library in part to avoid the problems that Python's standard library fell into. Things like cli parsers can be downloaded easily using cargo's amazing tooling. We get packages like structopt for example, which provides a custom derive parsing command line arguments:

#[derive(StructOpt)]
struct Opt {
#[structopt(short, long)]
debug: bool,

#[structopt(short = "c", long)]
nb_cars: Option<i32>,

#[structopt(short, long)]
level: Vec<String>,
}
??? They do. These features only exist on premium electric cars
Already exists. Custom HTTP Header with a JWT token for example. Also in the body of a post request can be the auth data. In the URL would also be possible but is a security risk due to e.g. browser history.
After cursory reading the docs, I do not feel that it's tied to GCP, only Kubernetes.

It could be a nice starter kit, but obviously I would not recommend migrating to it just because.
If they are intentionally causing confusion it seems their right to recover would be seriously limited by their failure to mitigate damages.
Concur. Hacker News without hckrnews.com would only be about half as useful.
You can now instantly install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu or use the command line
I don't remember my ICQ number anymore (I was about 13-14 during my usage period) but I do remember using ICQ to send the Back Orifice trojan to friends then spawning an endless number of eSheep on their desktops, taking screenshots and laughing like crazy.

Back when our internet connections prevented talking on the telephone, ICQ was invaluable. Those were the days.
Newsletter launch brings and72K views in 24 hours
Is this real? In Europe you can get a Fiat Panda, brand new, for 9k€. Smallish engine, barebones interior, but overall a pretty decent car.
Most session providers use a session cookie and store all the required values on the server. Moving that to the client will require a lot of additional javascript. And will also make sure that browsing without javascript is definitely impossible. Not to think about the amount of additional security holes that would open.
Not a programming joke per se, but there the lines at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact... are some of the funniest programming related descriptions out there.
It is not tied to Google Cloud. Micro runs locally by default using standard Go and linux processes. It also supports kubernetes for what we now deem as a more production grade cloud environment.
Good article.

There are plenty of reasons to tax and regulate Google and Facebook and disrupt their respective monopolies, but the proposed legislation would have far reaching consequences for the Internet and set a poor precedent.

What happens to the likes of DuckDuckGo and any future new entrants?

It also highlights the fact that we need a better model of paying for content. Advertising is just unbearable, maintaining several subscriptions is a pain. A Spotify model would work better for news sites.

The article is spot on for highlighting the transfer of revenue from Google/Facebook to News Corp without anyone else benefiting.
SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites to Polar Orbit to Provide Internet in Alaska
Most car accidents are private vehicle use. So it makes sense to compare those against GA (General Aviation, ie not commercial) accidents.

The accidents are much more similar, both in frequency (they happen all the time, with little public interest) and causes.

People fly their planes while drunk or ill, they fly planes that haven't been properly maintained, they fly when the weather is awful and it's recommended not to, they don't have good plans for what they'll do if anything goes wrong, they haven't practised skills they know they might need... and most of the time they came back down safe. But not always.

When people say "Plane crash" they're normally thinking about Scheduled Aviation, at the far end of the safety categories from GA. If you bought tickets to go from one place to another at a particular time, that's scheduled aviation, the aeroplanes used, the crews flying them, even the company operating them is far more closely regulated and as you'd expect the result is far greater safety.

I'd suggest comparing these accidents to bus crashes. A crash in which a greyhound smashes into a gorge and everybody dies would make the TV news, just as a crashed jetliner would. Like the plane, that bus was required to be properly maintained, its driver underwent training including periodic refreshers, and the company operating it is under much more scrutiny than some random guy in a pick-up.
Yes. In particular, if you distrust the MAX because of one isolated incident, then you should consider it safe to fly the MAX now. If, on the other hand, you distrust the MAX because of deep systemic issues with Boeing and the regulator, then there is a whole fleet of planes you shouldn't step in now, including the 787 Dreamliner (or at least those built at a certain plant).
Anybody know about initiatives to build cabins instead of letting people sleep in the cold ?
Oh, and I played a bit with multiseat yesterday. If you want, every VNC user can have their own mouse/keyboard, with independent focus.

Though that currently takes a bit of fiddling (`swaymsg seat seat_name attach "virtual pointer"` + one wayvnc instance per pointer), wayvnc reportedly has a branch where it's done automatically.
And anything political that doesn't meet the hivemind's right-leaning, libertarian political mindset. At least those who downvote and flag posts and comments, tend to effectively cancel particular views a lot.

Pretty sad state of affairs, as the hivemind remains a political bias, as new users don't have the same rights to manage visibility. Even on Reddit the Hivemind can't kill a comment completely. IMO comments/posts should never fall below 1 karma points, karma shouldn't be visible, just affect ranking, and comments only be removed by moderators, with an explanation, which community rule was broken.
advertisment still works, because the site can just execute a js and make a post request to the advertisment company.
"Hi early 2000s computer user, let's make a deal:

I get full access to everything you do online, and get to do anything I want with the information. Perhaps I'll use it to maybe target ads slightly better in some cases, and put myself into every value chain you're involved with so I can get a cut at every step.

Oh, and I'll do my best to move all computing online, so that 'everything you do online' equals 'everything you do with a computer'.

In exchange you'll get a web browser that is at times more performant than the others. Hell, I'll even throw in a free email account (where I can gather all the best bits of info)!

It's a pretty good deal, don't you think?"
At risk of being an annoying PSA: If it has a center of gravity higher than sedans or doesn't have a D-pillar, it's (probably) not a station wagon.
I've never been one of these people before, but I sure as !@#$ won't fly on the 737 Max. I no-longer trust the certification and safety authorities. I believe this is in dangerous realm of, "this company is too big to fail and human lives really aren't worth that much..."

I think we need to let big corporations die on occasion, otherwise important things like safety just become factored into the cost of doing business.
There's no reason to if you specifically block third-party cookies, which is what is being suggested (and what Axios muddies considerably by using "cookie" and "third-party cookie" interchangably).

Unless you're going to throw out local storage and custom request headers, getting rid of cookies isn't really going to do anything except make the same thing less secure (since you won't be able to benefit from the HttpOnly flag).
I think there's a noticeable difference between a $5 and $10-15 bottle, but much less difference between a $15 and $100, and zero between $100 and $250+.
They can get quite large, depending on where you are in the world. South America has ones that get 12 inches long and are venomous. I believe India also has some fairly large and venomous ones.

I don't know if any of the centipedes in the continental US are problematic like that or not.
That's fine, everything is fine. We'll just buy more ice when we run out
Expectations determine experience. And humans ground their experience in each other.

A very clear example of this is my experience of introducing people to Surströmming.

You could find countless videos on Youtube of people doing the "Surströmming challenge". They all come expecting the "smelliest food in the world", barf bags ready, giggling friend holding the camera. The results are predictable. People start barfing as soon as the can is opened.

If the novice instead comes to a proper meal setting, with plates and cutlery rather than the barf bags, the experience will be different. Nobody else at the table is freaking out. so why would you? When the smell hits (it's similar Kimchi) maybe the novice will make a comment about it, but that's all. Not everybody will take to Surströmming on their first try, though many do. But I've never seen anything even close to the Youtube freakouts. Expectations matter a lot.
Algorithmic Day Trading with crypto currencies.
Is your position that he has information that he’s not sharing? As opposed to the idea that there’s new information in an unfolding situation..
sounds like pretty good value to me
It ascribes a characterisation to homeless people (that they would prefer to get drunk than have a home) that there is simply no evidence for. The comment blames homeless people for their own destitution purely based on the commenter's preconceived bias against homeless people.
I can't help but think that companies like this that are planning on the disruption in consumption habits due to Covid continuing into the subsequent years are going to get burned badly when everyone abruptly starts going out again. I think a lot of people have realized that dining and even going to the grocery store is a lot more about the social aspect than they originally believed.
I don't have access to Codespaces, but recently tried VSCode with remote and am pretty impressed. The experience was as if I am working on my local machine, with no perceptible latency and all features like intellisense working just fine.
$ apt install 5g
$ echo "Done"
> I'm curious how long you need to wait before you declare it non-open-source.

I'm not sure there is a practical upper limit. Ghostscript for example for years only released as open source the version prior to the current one, and no one claimed that the existence of a proprietary fork invalidated the status of the open source version, no matter how long the delay between releases.

Admittedly there are differences, in Signal's case the deployed version is not currently released at all, but the worst case would be "open source version is no longer maintained", at which point I suspect that several forks would spring up, causing some confusion until one gained traction and dominance.

Right now, the latest release is 9 months old. This is certainly annoying and even concerning, but not yet cause for outright alarm, which can probably wait until March has gone by with no announced release schedule.
End of an ice age.
This isn't about the money.

France is doing the same thing and Google is fine with it.

It's about the detail that Google is required to share all algorithm changes with news co's four weeks in advance of them. This massively ties their hands and would require the AU news to effectively use an entirely different stack of logic and rules to display news articles...which are worth basically nothing to google because they have to pay handsomely for it.
Also very little of the money goes to smaller orgs and there are incredibly nonsensical rules around what content qualifies you for payment.

Oh and be aware of a dark detail here: The reporting on this is biased in nature because it directly aligns with the ability for increased money for the reporter reporting. This is why they are ignoring the reason why Google is actually leaving. Kinda like the McDonalds hot coffee thing, it's a whitewash over the truth. (Not that google is the good guy either, part of their game here is based on scaring other governments to not do this.)
I don't think any normal person wants micropayments. It's a hassle, and if I have to pay for every thing I want to click on, I'm mostly not going to click anything at all. Even if it's just pennies. It is the epitome of 'getting nickled and dimed to death'.

I expect the future of the 'net is a collection of walled gardens, where you pay just once and get everything from news to music, movies, etc. Basically what Apple is trying to do now, among others. The independent news sources will have to negotiate contracts to be in these gardens, except for a few stand-out services that are so good people will pay for them directly.
The green party insisted they change that months ago [1] and succeeded [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/31/google-and-fac...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55226316
We live in the timeline where "Alphabet to replace cookies" is a legit headline.

What is the public understanding/perception of cookies? The past couple of years since the implementation of the GDPR has probably been the biggest and weirdest public education campaign (done entirely through brief pseudo-consent popups).
Top Paying Companies by SWE Level
can't we just freeze the ocean water? pfft. "global warming".
My family was surprised by the insurrection because the two sides presented didn't consider that a realistic possibility. But if one was to listen to leftist podcasts covering the IDW (Intellectual Dark Web) then it's far less surprising. Manufacturing consent is real.
Well that was some terrible mental images
I don't see the point of this platform being to coddle inferior points of view by elevating them to faux equal footing. I think if anything having a site like this could illuminate how inferior a party's position is on an issue more clearly than trying to research yourself. It also may be that both sides are not uniformly wrong on all issues, and seeing where this is the case is potentially useful. That being said I feel like this platform is not going to work simply due to lack of users willing to put in the work. I feel like politifact is supposed to do the job of this already but since it is owned by Democrats(?) People already don't trust it
> The company said Monday that tests of FLoC to reach audiences show that advertisers can expect to see at least 95% of the conversions per dollar spent on ads when compared to cookie-based advertising. FLoC uses machine learning algorithms to analyze user data and then create a group of thousands of people based off of the sites that an individual visits. The data gathered locally from the browser is never shared. Instead, the data from the much wider cohort of thousands of people is shared, and that is then used to target ads.

If I was an advertiser I would have serious doubts about this, especially after the fact that ad spend on popular platforms have had no impact on many firm's bottom line.

I guess this is a response to all the pushbacks and dwindling PPC revenues from an increasingly wary advertisers who have quite possibly been duped into transferring their cash to Google & others over the decade.
Worth noting, before the city council legalized homeless camping there were literally zero tents.
https://ysaatio.fi/en/housing-first-finland there's no extensive graphs, but this page mentions it briefly. There's also been some freelancer yle documents covering up some homeless people that mainly refuse the social benefits to get more money for their daily drinking. [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08FET347Tx4
This looks to me as a way for Google to drastically increase their reach and track even more data about their "users".

They want the browser to "discover" the users interests automatically during browsing. For a page to be excluded from this, the page author would have to set a new policy header.

And then your browser reports these interest to whatever tracker (for example Google) asks for the information.

Suddently Google can learn about what you're browsing even if GA is blocked.
Looks great! I’ve missed something like this. A couple of questions:

1. Is there an example application that uses the starter?

2. Does it follow the command line interface guidelines at https://clig.dev?
"if it means I don't have to pay $20/year for more than 2mb of hotmail storage, i'm all for it!"

https://www.pcworld.com/article/116657/article.html#drr-cont... (250mb free increase was suspected to be a response to Gmail)
Finland is home to a centuries-old Roma community that arrived via Sweden. They too are seen as abusing social services and not integrating, the same general stereotypes as in southern Europe. (Members of this community can often be identified in Helsinki from their distinctive clothing, the women wear traditional skirts.)

So, Finns are already aware that Roma populations often live in tension with the major ethnicity of a country. However, the confusion about the ethnic makeup of Romania along with other Balkan countries persists due to the coincidentally similar names for these ethnicities, and lack of interest among the Finnish population about educating themselves about a region that seems far away and to which very few go to on holiday.
Italy consumer association sues Apple for planned iPhone obsolescence
Show HN: Retrospective on having my “Show HN” on the front-page
I was lucky enough to have my site trending on Friday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25872922). It’s an icon site that lists open source icons.

I wanted to share some stats on the results after 3 days. Worth noting was that I submitted it on a Friday morning (at which point I went for a walk and a coffee; eek).

- 24,997 page views.
I (embarrassingly) didn’t have GA set up when I first submitted it, so this is probably missing a few hundred page views

- 21 “feedback” emails (half of which were spam).
I assume such a high percentage of these were spam because my Feedback form didn’t require email addresses.

- 5 note-worthy emails from people which may result in some sort of collaboration

- 10 mailing list subscriber sign ups.
Running through MailChimp, and it’s not emphasized at all (eg. just a link in the footer). Purposefully not email-gating people to download, since I want this to be a very developer-centric site, and it feels a bit unsettling to email-gate other people’s digital content.

- 2,670 icon downloads

- 74 comments.
A big caveat to this one: I replied to almost every comment. The thinking is that if someone took the time to comment (even just a “thanks”), I wanted to take the time to reply to them as well.

Also, I purposefully didn’t reply to people who were commenting on their own alternative services. Perhaps a tad uncouth, but I didn’t want to shine a light on a comment that was designed to detract from my submission. I would have made an exception if there was substance to those comments beyond the detraction.

- One founder from a related (and leading) service (Flaticon) jumping into the comments.
I really appreciated this. Similar to how Patrick Collison (of Stripe) is often seen replying to comments on Stripe-related posts. This founder submitted thoughtful replies to people’s criticisms, which I thought was quite considerate.
(And is possible to change in the "Customize" tab)
The specs speak for themselves.
Say goodbye to ugly site banners
(this didn't fit into the original post due to character-limits)

- 22 different favicon/icon file requests.
I thought this one was funny. There were 22 different unique favicon/icon requests, which I presume speaks to the wide variety of devices and operating systems out there. For example, the standard favicon.ico, but then also so many different variations of files like: apple-touch-icon-57x57.png, apple-touch-icon-114x114.png, touch-icon-iphone.png, apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png

- 3 different bot scripts kicking in.
I noticed a ton of requests within a few hours that were scraping the site

Obviously the context around the submission is key to the stats and descriptions above (eg. time of day, period of week, what other submissions there were, how widely the submission appeals to the HN audience, etc), but I thought it may be useful to read a follow up on what a front-page position led to.

If anyone has any questions on other stats, let me know and I’ll do my best to get them.
Thanks for reading, and for the enjoyable (and panicky) Friday & Saturday
By the time they have been refuted there's a stack of new arguments. Checkmate atheists.